Quotes Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, ...

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters....

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid ...

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, fal...

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the n...

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know ...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening conscio...

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and...

Life on the planet is born of woman....

Lying is done with words and also with silence....

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language...

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling....

The connections between and among women are the most feared,...

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has an...

The moment of change is the only poem....

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with povert...

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more ...

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divid...

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain ...

We might possess every technological resource... but if our ...

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility...

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't...